An Air Malta spokesman said the couple were joined on the flight, which had views of Mount Etna on Sicily, by family, friends and colleagues who had been at the wedding.

"Air Malta would like to congratulate Captain Charles Borg Giuliano and crew Julia Lynne Saliba for this extraordinary initiative and augurs them a happy married life together," the spokesman said. "They join around 25 other married couples who are Air Malta staff members."

It was not the first time that pilots have been imaginative with their flight paths to create patterns in the sky.

These images of California in bloom were also captured by flightradar24.com.

The flowers were drawn by pilots over a number of weeks earlier this year.

The website also spotted an offensive shape that was made by a Norwegian plane over Stockholm in 2012, although it thought that the flight path was unintentional. Let’s hope the Swedes saw it that way too.